Researchers at MIT have uncovered a powerful way the brain "unlearns" fear: through a dopamine-driven reward signal. By ...

Exploring how sex differences regulate dopamine responses could inform novel interventions to prevent or treat substance use ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

OSA-related hypoxemia linked to increased frontoparietal cerebrovascular pathology, which is associated with reduced medial temporal lobe integrity.

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Secondary psychosis caused by a lesion was mapped to the hippocampus, with a peak in the posterior subiculum and was consistent across symptoms.

Researchers examined the DNA of over 53,000 people with OCD and over 2 million people without OCD, gathering data that could ...

Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, ...

Image Credit: New Africa / Shutterstock New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) has found that several areas of the brain, including regions that play a ...

People have a lot of misconceptions about what the brain's left and right hemispheres do, but one well-known aspect of this division may be even more true than people realize: The brain not only ...